New Lafayette tech firm had role in ACA website fiasco

6:26 PM,
Apr. 29, 2014

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announces the opening of a technology center by CGI Federal at a new research park owned by UL Lafayette during a press conference at the Lafayette Economic Development Authority in Lafayette, Monday, April 28, 2014. The research park will be under construction starting in 2014 with an expected opening date near the end of 2015. Paul Kieu, The Advertiser

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CGI Federal, the company whose plans to open a Lafayette technology center were welcomed Monday by Gov. Bobby Jindal, was the primary contractor for the healthcare.gov website last fall, when the sites malfunctioning led to talk of a "death spiral" that would bring down the Affordable Care Act.

Jindal has been an outspoken opponent of the ACA, the legislative centerpiece of President Barack Obama's first term. The governor refused to let Louisiana set up one of the health exchanges the ACA called on all states to establish, and he has blocked the ACA's expansion of enrollment in Medicaid, ...